Telescope: Meade SN10 at f/4, Orion Atlas EQ-G
Camera: Full Spectrum Modified Nikon D810
Filter: GSO IR Blocking Filter
Guide scope: Williams Optics 50mm, ASI290MM mini, PHD
Exposure: 50x20sec, ISO 200, saved as RAW
Darks: Internal (Long Exposure Noise Reduction)
Flats: 32×1/50sec, tee shirt flats taken at dusk
Average Light Pollution: Red zone, poor transparency
Lensed Sky Quality Meter: 18.2 mag/arc-sec^2
Stacking: Mean with a 1-sigma clip.
White Balance: Nebulosity Automatic
Software: Backyard Nikon, Nebulosity, Deep Sky Stacker, Photoshop
Through a small telescope M35 is rather delicate and appears as a beautiful patch of stardust that just keeps on getting better as you use larger and larger scopes. NGC 2158 is the much smaller and fainter cluster to the lower right of M35. The apparent smaller size and red color of this cluster is a result of it being much farther away than M35; 16,500 light years versus 2,800 light years. NGC 2158 makes a fine companion to M35 in large telescopes.
M35 is currently in the western sky at dusk.
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